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Five Hotel Happenings for Father's Day
If you're panicking because Father's Day is this weekend and you still haven't picked up a gift for dad, there's still time to show him that you care. Whether you want to treat him to a cooking class—or not so subtly show him there's more to food than TV dinners—or send him flying down a zip line, these hotels offer the perfect gift for dear old dad.
Check out our top five list of Father's Day hotels after the jump.
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Star-Crossed Lovers Get Tarot Cards and Star Maps for V-Day at the Vero Beach Hotel
Every Valentine's Day, we're inundated with crazy hotel packages that would require a Real Housewives-sized budget (and aren't all that inventive). So this week, we're taking a look at affordable, but fun deals that us regular folks would book.
With any luck, the stars will align for zodiac zealots at the Vero Beach Hotel during Valentine's Day. The Florida hotel is offering a Star-Crossed Lovers package where you'll get your fill of celestial bodies, and we don't (just) mean your valentine.
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Starwood Will Turn Bryant Park Into a Summer Wonderland Tomorrow
Which would you prefer: hotel pool in South Beach--or ice-rink in the city?
If you live in NYC or have been in town this winter, you may have noticed that Bryant Park has been transformed into The Pond, a free skate rink with assorted other wintry activities on tap. Tomorrow, however, Starwood is flipping the seasons and turning the Pond into a pop-up summer shop, promoting the idea of a winter getaway to one of its hotels and resorts in Florida and the Caribbean.
Drop by between noon and 6 p.m. tomorrow and you'll see beach cabanas, a beach-ball-filled igloo, chicks getting their hair braided and people bowling with coconuts. You know, just another day in New York.
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The Hilton Suites Boca Raton to Go Pure with New Bacteria-Free Rooms
Hypo-allergenic hotel rooms have been spreading like the flu. The latest hotel infected with the bacteria-free room craze is Hilton Suites Boca Raton. A tipster told us the hotel is in the process of installing a slew of new Pure room, and we confirmed that the Florida hotel is indeed getting 16 such rooms.
This will make the Hilton the only hotel in Boca Raton to have hypo-allergenic rooms. The installation of the rooms will wrap up September 19-23.
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The Sanibel Harbour Marriott Protests the Postage Hike with Two-Cent Rooms
The Sanibel Harbour Marriott Resort & Spa apparently is so up in arms over the U.S. Postal Service's proposed two-cent stamp increase that it will give out two-cent rooms. Yeah, that'll show those postal workers.
Okay, so we kid. Obviously we are gonna call gimmick on this one. Sure, no one is happy about paying almost 50 cents to send out a letter, but let's not pretend that this is an issue about protesting the increasingly expensive mail service.
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The Pink Hotel To End All Pink Hotels: The WalkAbout Beach Resort
You know how it is on your beach vacay. Spend a bit too long in the sun and you go a charming shade of pink. By the looks of things in Hollywood, Florida, the same can happen to hotels. This is how the WalkAbout Beach Resort looks now. But not so long ago it sported a different Lily Pulitzer-esque beach shade—and not everyone is happy with the change.
In fact, according to the Miami Herald, "City officials hated it, neighbors hated it, locals hated it."
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A Different Kind of Jersey Shore Heads to Miami: The Daddy O Hotel
What's this? Yet another new hotel in Miami? While we've been gearing up for the opening of the JW Marriott Maquis downtown, and Soho Beach House in South Beach, another boutique hotel has quietly opened its doors further north, just across the water from the Bal Harbour Shops.
Meet Daddy O, a sister (brother?) property to a hotel with the same name in Long Beach Island, New Jersey. Yes, another member of the "Jersey Shore" has landed in Miami but unlike Snooki, The Situation and JWOWW, this hotel plans on staying a while.
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Totally Rad: Florida's Postcard Inn Gets Even Cheaper
We already loved the Gidget look of The Postcard Inn when it reopened last October. Now, with slush lining the NYC streets, and cheap-as-chips rates courtesy of Travelzoo, it looks even more seductive.
The ’Zoo alerted us to savings of 60% off regular rates—$79 a night—at the boho-budget hotel, for travel dates through March 4, and again from April 11–23.
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Party Like the 'Real Housewives' at the W Fort Lauderdale
If you love the botoxed, catty vixens from Bravo's The Real Housewives of Orange County, you can test out the luxe O.C. lifestyle with the W Fort Lauderdale's Live It Up Like a Housewife package.
The deal's inspired by an episode that will air Thursday, when the high-maintenance ladies jetted to Fort Lauderdale and checked into the W for a girls' weekend. At the hotel, the housewives stayed in suite accommodations, got manis at Bliss Spa, dined at Steak 954, got tipsy at Whiskey Blue—where they smack-talked about Vicki—and in true VIP style, lounged in a private cabana on the pool deck.
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New Year, New Hotel Gimmick: $20.10 Rate at Miami's Hotel Urbano
Miami's soon-to-be-opened Hotel Urbano is pushing a Grand Opening gimmick that ranks low in creativity but high on the savings-o-meter.
Originally slated to open in October, as we reported, its unveiling will now take place in late December, just in time to receive an onslaught of travelers in the new year.
The themed deal offers guests who book two or more nights in January 2010 a rate of $20.10 for their first night. That's good enough for those who want to kick off 2010 in a snow-free climate, but just remember--the hotel is located in Brickell which is downtown Miami as opposed to Miami Beach and its party scene. But with regular room rates ranging from $115-230 per night, you're pocketing a lot of cash and should have plenty of cab fare to get back-and-forth with no problem.
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Go Gidget at The Postcard Inn on the Beach
Yes, yes, we realize it is officially fall, but it just seems too damn cold too damn soon this year. Which means we’re getting a jump-start on our snowbird plans, weighing up which sunny destination to escape to first come December or January. News, then, that the Postcard Inn on the Beach opened last Thursday in St. Pete Beach, Florida, was music to our cold ears.
We’ll always have a soft spot for the beachy motels of America’s past, and this looks like just the place to rediscover our inner Gidget. First of all, there’s the décor of the guest rooms: ocean murals on the walls, surfboards and gear as decoration, and vintage light fixtures. Some rooms will have poolside patios for post-beach brews, and others overlook the garden or the gulf.
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Fairmont Hotels Inspired to Give Back by Ken Burns' New Documentary
The Fairmont San Francisco jumps on the state park philanthropy bandwagon, details below
If you've ever seen any portion of the sweeping TV-documentary The Civil War, then you know who Ken Burns is. The PBS mainstay has been producing and directing films for the network for a quarter century about everything from the Statue of Liberty to architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
When Burns speaks, PBS-o-philes listen, and he's not one to shy away from advocating causes close to his heart. His latest documentary The National Parks: America's Best Idea (how's that for a bold statement?) recently premiered on PBS; it takes a look at famous outdoor landmarks like The Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and Yellowstone, and the "people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved."
That's all well and good, but what exactly does it have to do with hotels? The Fairmont has jumped on the Ken Burns bandwagon, promoting park and nature-related packages and making charitable gestures in the spirit of PBS' giving filmmaker. Hey, if The Fairmont Newport Beach can push an Orange County, naturalist-led "Gold Coast" tour and donate 10 percent of proceeds to the California Commission at the same time, why not?
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